I doubt if she would go, anyway.

She has always been like a little sister to Marion and me and she has come to believe--something--as we do.

I hate to leave her." "Obadiah told me about her mother," ventured Nathaniel.

"He said that some day Winnsome will be a queen." "I knew her mother," replied Neil, as though he had not heard Nathaniel's last words.

He looked frankly into the other's face.